NAME

ypinit - build and install Yellow Pages database

SYNOPSIS

/usr/etc/yp/ypinit −m

/usr/etc/yp/ypinit −s master_name

DESCRIPTION

ypinit sets up a Yellow Pages database on a YP server.  It can be used to set up a master or a slave server.  You must be the super-user to run it.  It asks a few, self-explanatory  questions, and reports success or failure to the terminal. 

It sets up a master server using the simple model in which that server is master to all maps in the data base.  This is the way to bootstrap the YP system; later if you want you can change the association of maps to masters. 

Note:If there are both 3.x and 4.x YP servers running in the network, the 4.x server should be configured as the master. 

All databases are built from scratch, either from information available to the program at runtime, or from the ASCII data base files in /etc.  These files are listed below under FILES.  All such files should be in their “traditional” form, rather than the abbreviated form used on client machines. 

A YP database on a slave server is set up by copying an existing database from a running server.  The master_name argument should be the hostname of YP server (either the master server for all the maps, or a server on which the data base is up-to-date and stable). 

Read ypfiles(5) and ypserv(8) for an overview of the Yellow Pages. 

OPTIONS

−m Indicate that the local host is to be the YP master. 

−s Set up a slave database. 

FILES

/etc/passwd

/etc/group

/etc/hosts

/etc/networks

/etc/services

/etc/protocols

/etc/ethers

SEE ALSO

makedbm(8), ypfiles(5), ypmake(8), yppush(8), ypserv(8), ypxfr(8)

Sun Release 4.0  —  Last change: 22 March 1989